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• First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.

  David Allen

  Mind, Buckets, Way

  David Allen (2011). “Getting Things Done: How to achieve stress-free productivity”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security

  Tatyana Golikova

  Construction Projects, Numbers, Covered

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.

  Caroline Myss

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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• When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

  Taylor Swift

  Hard

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• I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Jobs, Feelings, Leaving

  "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.

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• I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Art, Giving, Judging

  "Scenari urbani". Interview with Daniele Lisi, www.landscapestories.net.

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• [Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Tired, Envy, Democracy

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• I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Walks

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• The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

  Manmohan Singh

  Father, Ignorance, People

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.

  Raymond Cattell

  Children, Lakes, Forever

  Raymond Bernard Cattell (1972). “A new morality from science: beyondism”, Pergamon

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• You can't die with an unfinished book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Dies

  "Discworld's Terry Pratchett On Death And Deciding". Interview With Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 11, 2011.

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• I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Girl, Badass

  "The Hillary Doctrine". Interview with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.

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• You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where there has been progress and there has been change.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Two, Unfinished Business, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wrote, in total, about 50 or so songs (finished and unfinished) in the 2 and a half years leading up until this moment, and trying to decide what songs to include on the Mini-Album was super difficult, because there were so many different sound/mood roads I could have gone down. But, after going through everything, these tracks seemed to fit together and communicate a similar sentiment and mood the best.

  St. Lucia

  Song, Years, Track

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Next, Reason, Scene

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

  Chelsea Manning

  Military, War, Unfinished Business

  "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.

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• According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Broken, Tasks, Generations

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• We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Broken, Generations, Next

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• But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Earth, Made

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.340, Penguin UK

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• Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

  Suzanne Collins

  Unfinished Business, President Snow, White

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life Is, Obscure, Poet

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Pale fire”, Berkley

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• With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

  Juliet Marillier

  Quiet People, Voice, Gone

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.259, Pan Australia

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• An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Determination, Book, Focus

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivation, Procrastination, Unfinished Business

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 01, 2011

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